Greetings Fellow Monks,

I am trying to pipe the contents of a text file into a perl script. I need be able to call the script similarly to the following: 
script.pl < file.txt

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My script would then need to capture the contents of file.txt into an array. The following code does not accomplish this: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $line;

foreach $line (@ARGV) {

        print "The line is: $line\n";

}

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I would be extremely grateful if someone could someone give me some insight on how to accomplish this.

Thanks!

smack
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